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Thomas Haweis · 1795 · Scripture
The Haweis New Testament stands among the distinctive evangelical English New Testaments of the eighteenth century, a period in which individual translators increasingly ventured beyond the received King James Version to render…
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James MacKnight · 1795 · Scripture
An influential translation of and commentary on the apostolic epistles, the work of the Scottish minister and biblical scholar James MacKnight. Its scope is the New Testament Epistles, translated from Greek and…
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William Newcome · 1796 · Scripture
A major scholarly English New Testament produced at the turn of the nineteenth century, this work covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament. It…
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John Gill · 1796 · Book
John Gill's comprehensive systematic theology emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry at Horsleydown Baptist Church in London and his recognition that English Baptists lacked a thorough doctrinal handbook comparable to the…
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Charles Simeon · 1796 · Treatise
Charles Simeon's "Evangelical Preaching" emerged from his decades of experience as a preacher at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, and his role in training evangelical clergy within the Church of England. Writing during…
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William Wilberforce · 1797 · Book
William Wilberforce wrote this systematic exposition of evangelical Christianity while serving as a member of Parliament and leading the campaign against the slave trade. Published in 1797 during a period when nominal…
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William Wilberforce · 1797 · Book
William Wilberforce wrote this searching examination of contemporary Christianity in 1797, at the height of his parliamentary career and his campaign against the slave trade. The work emerged from his conviction that…
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Nathaniel Scarlett · 1798 · Scripture
The Scarlett New Testament is a distinct, independent English rendering of the New Testament associated with early English Universalism. Its scope is confined to the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and…
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Hannah More · 1799 · Treatise
Hannah More's treatise emerges from her deep concern about the superficial education offered to upper-class women in late eighteenth-century England. Writing as an established playwright, educator, and religious reformer, More observed that…
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John Witherspoon · 1800 · Book
John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy emerged from his teaching at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) during his presidency from 1768 to 1794. As both an educator and Presbyterian…
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Works The Works of John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon · 1800–1801 · Other
The collected works of John Witherspoon represent the theological and philosophical output of one of colonial America's most influential Presbyterian ministers and educators. Witherspoon served as president of the College of New…
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Charles Simeon · 1801 · Treatise
Charles Simeon's "Helps to Composition" emerged from his decades of experience training clergy at Cambridge University and his recognition that many ministers struggled to craft effective sermons. As one of the most…
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Rowland Hill · 1801 · Book
Village Dialogues emerged from Rowland Hill's decades of preaching to common people across England in the late eighteenth century. An Anglican clergyman who drew enormous crowds in fields, barns, and meeting houses,…
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William Wilberforce · 1807 · Letter
William Wilberforce penned this letter in 1807, the year Parliament finally passed the Slave Trade Act abolishing Britain's participation in the transatlantic slave trade. After two decades of parliamentary battles, failed bills,…
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Hannah More · 1808 · Book
Hannah More's novel follows Charles Coelebs, a young man of means seeking a wife who embodies both Christian virtue and educated refinement. Published in 1808 at the height of More's influence as…
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Thomas Belsham and Unitarian editors, revising William Newcome · 1808 · Scripture
The Improved Version of the New Testament is an important early nineteenth-century doctrinal and text-critical revision of an English New Testament, limited in scope to the New Testament alone. Working from both…
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Charles Thomson · 1808 · Scripture
The Thomson Bible holds the distinction of being the first English translation of the Septuagint to appear as part of a complete Bible, and it stands as one of the earliest major…
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Henry Martyn · 1809–1812 · Treatise
Henry Martyn's Controversial Tracts emerged from his pioneering missionary work in India and Persia between 1809 and 1812. As one of the first Anglican missionaries to engage seriously with Islamic theology, Martyn…
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Andrew Fuller · 1810 · Treatise
Andrew Fuller's "Strictures on Sandemanianism" emerged from his deep concern over the teachings of Robert Sandeman and his followers, who had gained influence among some Baptist and Independent congregations in late eighteenth-century…
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Hannah More · 1811 · Book
Hannah More's Practical Piety emerged from her conviction that the evangelical revival of her era needed grounding in daily Christian living. Writing in 1811 as a prominent lay Anglican and moral reformer,…
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Hannah More · 1813 · Book
Hannah More's Christian Morals emerged from her position as one of Britain's most influential evangelical writers during the height of the abolition movement and social reform campaigns of the early nineteenth century.…
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Abner Kneeland · 1823 · Scripture
The Kneeland New Testament is a distinct early American translation of the New Testament, associated with the radical religious currents of its time and reflecting the period in which Bible translation in…
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Living Oracles Living Oracles / Sacred Writings
Alexander Campbell, compiling and revising George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge · 1826 · Scripture
A composite revision rather than a wholly fresh translation, this work confines its scope to the New Testament, rendered from the Greek but mediated through earlier English predecessors. Its base text draws…
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New Testament Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament
John Gorham Palfrey · 1828 · Scripture
An early American attempt to bring the familiar English of the King James Version into alignment with a modern critical Greek text, Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament covers the New Testament and works…
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